SNOW!!!

We're finally getting some of the traditional winter weather, in a bit of an abundance. But since I'm not working right now I'm quite enjoying the weather and the fact that I can watch the kids having snow fights in the yard with Loki (she loves watching the kids playing outside)

it's kind of hard to see the snow outside, but if she's starting to get fussy, I just take her over to the window and let her look for a while. It's her new favorite thing to do. Although air kisses are becoming quite popular.

I just love watching it snow knowing I don't have to go out in the weather, and neither do my loved ones.

Music is powerful

It's interesting, the power of music. With a single song you can be reduced to tears, or laughing uncontrollably. Sometimes it's the song itself, or the memories associated with the time you heard the song.
We were listening to a playlist on our way to church, and "Broken" by Seether feat Amy Lee came on. For the first time I remember happy times with my ex, when he brought his guitar to Cottonwood Pointe and serenaded me, and the told me of his parents requirement of a break to prove that we were serious about our courtship (which is ridiculous  and is such a long complicated story that seriously pisses me off I won't go into it now...plus if they would have just waited, we probably would have broken up before a whole year passed, but the fact that we couldn't be together keep us closer than we would have been)

But it also got me thinking about where I've been in life when I think of songs....for instance, I held hands with a boy for the first time (David, one of my first big crushes, who didn't really like me back until I hit puberty, and even then wasn't really nice to me) after listening to DC Talk "Jesus Freak". Then there's "Clumsy" by Fergie, which always makes me think of how I would literally trip and fall over myself with nervousness when Husband and I were first getting to know each other and dating (I lost track of how many plates/glasses/bowls I broke or cracked in that first year....He still teases me about that)

Husband always says it's not the actions in a movie that make you really feel the emotion, it's the music behind the actions driving the point home straight to your tear ducts. Really, just think about it.

And I'll leave you with this video, it's an AMV (Anime Music Video) of "Broken" by Seether feat Amy Lee, the song I was talking about earlier. It's two characters from the anime Bleach,and the combo of the song and the scenes from the anime really just hit the right nerve.

WARNING: If you do follow Bleach or Naruto, the videos do contain spoilers if you are not close to the current chapters!

My other favorite is"Stand in the Rain" by Superchick. I'm guessing most people that read this will have never seen Naruto before, but I think it can be understood either way, but this one makes me tear up every time ...but Hinata is also my favorite character in the series (that's the dark haired girl in the video btw)

New Game

I love that all these new games coming out are 'free to play' and depend on micro transactions for their profit. Lets us poor people play some really awesome looking games (I'm talking graphics as well as plot) without having to save up all of our 'free' money to play.

Husband downloaded "Path of Exile" it plays a little like Diablo 3, but there's a hunter class, so of course I'm happy with it. Also the most interesting thing to me is there is no 'money' in the game. And by that I mean no gold currency. All trades happen with a barter scale. You trade items for scrolls of wisdom used to identify things. I've only made it to level 2, but seriously, I'm enjoying it so far. Although to be honest, I'm just using these games to fill the void until I can afford (time and money) to start playing World of Warcraft again, I do miss it.

Anywho, Husband has given me some Loki free time, so off to play I go!

Disorginization and Lists

Yeah, I realize that is probably spelled wrong, but I don't really care right now.

My house is kind of a mess....I've been in a rut with cleaning and just have not been able to handle keeping everything caught up, even with the help of Husband and Sweetheart. My lists help somewhat, but I really need to focus on de-cluttering and making sure everything has it's own place and is kept out of the way. Especially now that Loki is starting to get into everything, and move all the drawer contents around. (We really need to find some drawer shutters, what we've done for now is just emptied the drawers she can reach and filled them with Tupperware that isn't dangerous for her to play with.)

So, my mission in life this week is to bug the manager at Old Mission until he gives me a job, get my list completed on the right days if not earlier, and work on getting the living room squared away and organized/de-cluttered.

Testing...testing

Today is the first time seeing my parents in person after I told them the truth about my life. Here's hoping it all goes well (and knowing my parents, it will actually go very well)